Purrfect Trap by Nic Saint

Author:Nic Saint [Saint, Nic]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781708153496
Google: P5nWywEACAAJ
Amazon: 1708153497
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2019-11-13T08:00:00+00:00

At the office, Odelia was adding some spice to the article Dan had written about the upcoming Fall Ball, always a big thing in Hampton Cove, and an opportunity for the mayor to mingle with his constituents. The next election was still three years away, but Mayor Turner never missed an opportunity to sell himself to potential voters. Maybe the reason he’d been in office for as long as Odelia could remember. Suddenly Dan stuck his head in the door.

“Have you heard about the case of the missing Duffer?” he asked with a slight grin on his bearded face.

“The missing what?” she asked, looking up from her laptop.

“The missing Duffer. The famous salami?”

She leaned back. “Funny. My mom sent me a text this morning about the Duffer. How does a sausage go missing, exactly?” This sounded like a story right up Dan’s alley. He liked to fill the Gazette with colorful fluff pieces like that. And readers loved it.

“Take the story and find out. The Mayor made a big scene at Fry Me For An Oyster when they announced they were all out of Duffers. Threatened to fire the entire staff.”

“He can’t fire the staff. He doesn’t own the restaurant. Does he?”

“Who knows with these local moguls.”

“Is this really a story we need to pursue, Dan?” she asked, gesturing to the pile of files clogging up her inbox.

Dan arched an eyebrow. “The Mayor? Blowing his top? Over a sausage?”

She grinned. “I see your point. But can you finish this article about the Fall Ball?”

“Will do, kid,” said Dan, rapping his knuckles on the doorjamb and returning to his own sanctum.

She picked up her bag, which held a dictaphone, laptop, and enough notebooks to write up a dozen stories about a dozen mayors blowing their tops over a lack of salamis.

She walked the short distance to the restaurant where the sordid scene had played out, and ten minutes later she was talking to one of the servers who’d actually witnessed the incident, and gave a vivid blow-by-blow account of the Mayor’s darkest moment.

Next came Wallace Banio, the maître d’, who was more than happy to spill the beans, provided his name wasn’t mentioned in the article. “I don’t know what came over him,” he said. “He went completely berserk. Said that if I didn’t feed him his daily slice of Duffer, he’d ruin me, ruin my family, ruin the restaurant, and see to it that I never worked in this town again. Do you think he can do that, Miss Poole?”

“I doubt it,” said Odelia. “You have to remember that politicians live at the mercy of the voting public. They’re only one vote away from being replaced by the next guy.”

Wallace nodded, visibly relieved. “At the end, he got a little sad, though. He seemed to realize he’d made a big fuss over nothing. I actually felt sorry for the poor guy. He acted like an addict, you know. A Duffer addict.”

“So maybe he should join the ADs. The Anonymous Dufferaholics?” The joke didn’t register, though, but then Odelia’s jokes rarely did.

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